Testimony

Healing Testimony

Connie Diel

I have been attending Grace Chapel in Carbondale, Kansas for the last 10 years, where Roy and Anita Clark are my pastors.

In 1982, I was diagnosed as having a bipolar condition, and stress seizures. I was put on Lithium and another medication to control the seizures. About 6 months after I started attending Grace Chapel, the Lord healed me from the seizures and the doctor took me off the medication. I had been having seizures for 15 years. Since the Lord healed me, I have had no more seizures.

Since I came to Carbondale, I have sat under the teaching of the Word, and through prayer of the pastors and saints here have come to the place where I worship freely, and experience the blessing of speaking in tongues as I pray. God has revealed to me that I am eternally saved, that my salvation is by grace and not by works. I had continued to take my medication for the bipolar condition.

At different times, I had rebelled against taking the medication, and would quit it on my own. Immediately, others would know that I was off my medication, because symptoms would begin to occur - i.e. pacing, fast talking, hallucinations, depression, and suicidal etc. This would be very noticeable to others around me. Over the last 10 years, God delivered me from many things as the pastors and others prayed, but I still remained on the medication. When I would go to the psychiatrist with any problem, he would just add more medication.

Around Feb.1, 2000, I began having terrible low abdominal pain. I went to an M.D. she said that I had an enlarged ovary. She felt that my ovaries would have to be removed, along with any tumors that might be there. She scheduled me for an ultra sound for the next week. I suffered with pain continually. The saints prayed for me several times. The night before the ultrasound, I was reading my Bible. I read the verse in Luke 18:27, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” I started praying and praising, and asking God to heal me. As I prayed, I felt the pain leave my body. I have had no more pain from this condition unto this day. The next day, I had the ultrasound test. Everything showed up to be perfectly normal, no mass, no tumor, no pain. Praise the Lord!

Two days later, I went to the psychiatrist for a refill on my medications. He wanted to increase my medication because I told him about an upsetting problem at work. I came home very upset that he wanted in increase my medication. I began to pray and ask the Lord about Luke 18:27. I ask why people would sometimes believe for healing of their bodies, but not for healing for the mind. I felt the presence of the Lord and as I read the verse again from my Bible, it seemed to stick out bolder and larger to me.

This is not impossible with God. The Lord spoke to me to stop taking my medication. I did, and I am healed. I have assurance of it. I know that I know. I didn’t tell anyone for 2 weeks, because I was afraid they would insist that I get back on my medication again. I called a psych. nurse that I knew and asked about how along it would take to be noticeable, and when would symptoms appear, if a person went off the drugs. She said that a person would begin to feel the affects, and their behavior would be affected in 3 days.

When I told my pastors, they rejoiced with me, because they had not seen any abnormal behavior in me during the 2 weeks. Since then, I have been like a different person. Others notice a difference in me. I’m peaceful, I can hold a job without those awful fears, I don’t pace, my hands do not shake anymore, and I’m sleeping well, without hallucinations or bad dreams.

Satan has thrown his darts at me through other people. Old friends and family members have tried to tell me, I’m not healed, and need to go back on my medications, but I know God has healed me. I intend to walk closer to the Lord each day. I know the most important thing is to study the Bible and pray. That will keep me in victory.